as in rubberneck
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Not exactly—there’s only so many people there to buy art, and plenty of others are there to rubberneck.
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Many in the art world have been watching — though often to rubberneck.
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Russia is essentially trying to build a closed, spy-friendly, domestic version of the Internet.
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Brown and Harbour are set to star in and executive produce an upcoming spy drama show from A24 that has received a straight-to-series order at Netflix.
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Similar to how goggles protect your peepers from chlorine (and the burning feeling that can follow after opening your eyes in a swimming pool), goggles work very well to combat onion tears, Hale says.
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The House advanced the bill codifying the peeper’s status, House Bill 5534, this week by a vote of 136-0.
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Wrestlers like Garcia and Stewart have achieved what Morrison has set his sights on, but Morrison isn’t a star gazer.
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The Department’s mistake is to worry about Sarah instead of Zoë, the professional snooper.
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It is turned off by default—anything that can store this kind of history is something that a snooper or domestic abuser could access.
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Except Leo is the opposite of a snoop.
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Terrible for me, an incorrigible snoop of other people’s phones, but probably a good thing for society at large.
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The rubberneckers who gather across the street are represented by crowd noise, and at one point a handful of cops stalk down the aisles of the theater, guns pointed right at Sonny.
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So Wembanyama naturally decided to toy with his rubberneckers.
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In fact, the NFLPA filed an amicus brief effectively against Clarett, portraying him as an interloper of sorts.
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Later, a gray squirrel expressed its displeasure at an interloper disrupting its peace.
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“Gawker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gawker. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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